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The impediments to the expansion of small black owned businesses in Durban.
(2008)The purpose of the study was to investigate the impediments to the expansion of small black owned businesses in Durban. The study was based on the assumption that small black owned businesses are not expanding in Durban ... -
To assess the implementation of the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) in a national government department (Statistics South Africa)
(2019)The aim of the study was to assess the implementation of Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) in Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). This will determine whether the tool is producing the desired results that it ... -
To evaluate the impact of internet technology on the print media and to recommend strategies to Independent Newspapers on the road going forward.
(2004)The advent of globalisation and technology has had a profound effect on the business environment. This has changed both the manner and speed with which business is conducted globally. Technology has facilitated the expediency ... -
Total quality management in automotive manufacturing.
(2013)Total Quality Management (TQM) has become a term associated with a holistic management approach to business processes with the aim of obtaining efficiency and customer satisfaction. Today the South African automotive ... -
A total quality management system for a university faculty.
(2011)Total Quality Management, (TQM), is an internationally recognized system of improving quality in industry. Globally, academic institutions have also adopted the principles of TQM systems to enhance the quality of ... -
Total service quality strategy in a revolutionary staffing solutions environment.
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Toward the construction of a business bootstrapping model to equip emerging micro business in the first year of operation in South Africa.
(2019)SMMEs industry in South Africa contributes approximately 52 to 57 percent of the GDP. SMMEs sector is envisaged to 90 percent in the next few years towards South African GDP and employment. More than 50 percent of businesses ... -
Towards a conceptualisation of service quality at an educational institution.
(2004)FET Colleges are facing two main challenges in the new educational landscape in South Africa, namely; responding to the desired level of delivery to cater for all South Africans as a postmerged institution and responding ... -
Towards a management approach for sustainable social development programmes for orphans in southern Africa : application of systems theory.
(2010)The study explored transforming social development project management practice into delivering sustainable benefits for orphans in Zimbabwe, in particular and more generally, in southern Africa. The endemic failures to ... -
Towards a systems and complexity perspective of the national system of innovation.
(2009)The national system of innovation (NSI) is well entrenched within South Africa’s policy discourse, as a conceptual framework for understanding the nature and functioning of the country’s totality of science and technology ... -
Towards improved financial services and treatment of investors in retirement funds.
(2013)It is a common practice that people earn income during their period of active employment and they save part thereof to sustain their livelihoods when they retire. A variety of investment vehicles is available to use as ... -
Towards improving management development by understanding the perceptions of senior managers of the Khaedu Action Learning Programme : a case study in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial administration.
(2006)The effectiveness of Senior Management in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Public is essential to effective service delivery. This study addresses the area of management development. It is an attempt to improve management ... -
Towards the development of a modified indirect method of estimating the shear strength properties of shales using shales of the Pietermaritzburg formation as a case study.
(2015)Urban sprawl in the Durban metropolitan area has necessitated for the development of areas underlain by shale which were once deemed unsuitable due to instability and the adverse degradable nature of shales when used in ... -
Towards understanding the dynamic tensions between creativity and control in an information technology financial services company.
(2006)This study explores the reasons behind why EasyPay, a financial services Information Technology company, has not been able to balance the need to innovate its service offering with the pressure to stabilise its service ... -
Trade liberalisation in Swaziland : its impact on the agricultural sector.
(2004)In recent years, the world has been experiencing rapid and extensive global shifts that have had a positive and negative impact on different countries around the globe. These global shifts have also influenced the way ... -
Traditional leadership in local economic development : a case study of the uMgungundlovu District.
(2012)Inequality in South Africa in terms of access to education, finance, food security, and public amenities is worse in rural areas under traditional leadership than in urban areas not under the control of traditional leaders. ... -
Training needs of medical managers in public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2012)National healthcare departments all over the world are facing the problem of rationing very limited resource to achieve acceptable levels of health care for their citizens. At the centre of healthcare challenges is the ... -
Training of intelligence operatives.
(2006)The term "Intelligence" has for too long been perceived as activities of closed organisations, surrounded by myths, misunderstanding, and taboos. Intelligence is now regarded as a key element not only in business but ... -
Transformation in the petroleum retail business: a case of African black women ownership of Engen service stations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2018)South Africa is still grappling with issues of gender inequality in the workplace and in business, the dawn of democracy in 1994 marked a historical moment where the previously disadvantaged groups were also allowed to ...